We all have different ideas of what a home should look like and some of the houses below may be a little too outrageous for some people’s taste, but they are all beautifully and creatively designed to bring out the character and personality of the homeowner.

Below are a collection of covers, all of which show unique and creative designs that makes them a sheer delight. Some are worth buying for their covers alone, while others do their best to tell the story before you even open the book. Either way, it’s worth popping along to your local book shop to see if you can find any gems like these.

The examples shown below illustrate a vintage visual style that is both memorable and attractive. Although most of them follow the usual format, they look and feel completely different from what you would expect today’s company’s or individuals to produce. Following vintage design styles isn’t something new, but it makes a refreshing change to be given a business card that looks so different and eyecatching.

The advertisements and posters below show the many creative styles and imaginative approaches we have become accustomed to recently, including a few examples of “Impossible is Nothing”, the current mainstream marketing slogan for Adidas.

These tents inject colour and fun into your outdoor space and come in a full range of totally unexpected and highly creative designs. They really stand out against the traditional tents on the market and there are more than 40 different designs to choose from. Priced from around £395 they are available at www.fieldcandy.com but you need to hurry if you are interested as these are limited edition designs which could turn into quite a collector’s item.

At first glance it looks absolutely stunning but it will be interesting to see if it is quite as practical to use as the standard knife sets we all use every day.

Using the Fanta Crew characters, such as Kimmy the Witch and Andy the Vampire, posing in their Halloween costumes, it brings out the fun of the Fanta brand and is a great marketing strategy for one of the world’s premium brands.

Designed by Stag & Hare of New York it shows how effective and creative  just a small change in the design can be.

Using sporting images of a whole host of Paraylmpians, including sprinter Oscar Pistorius, the posters portray an energy and excitement that can often be lacking in other sporting advertisements.

Everything from brick bookends to bird houses have been created with materials that have been either discarded or have come to the end of their life. Even the old favourite of using a coat hanger as a car aerial has been given a new and modern twist.

The cheeses are shaped like oversized pencils, where the “leads” contain three different flavours of cheese. With the sharpener included, the required amount of cheese can be sprinkled on the dish. A scale on the pencils and on the back of the packaging shows just how much of the Cheese Pencil is needed for each dish, and even shows you how many calories each portion contains.

The limited first edition batch of 500 completely sold out in a matter of weeks.